Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Researchers demonstrated how crooks could hack Diebold Nixdorf’s Wincor Cineo ATMs to bypass black-box attack protections and withdraw cash. An attacker with access to the dispenser controller’s USB port can install an outdated or modified firmware version to bypass the encryption and make cash withdrawals. score of 6.8.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass officially instituted this change back in 2018, but some undisclosed number of the company’s earlier customers were never required to increase the length of their master passwords. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2021

Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The FBI and Australian Federal Police (AFP) ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “The messages are encrypted using XOR “encryption” with a static key.” SecurityAffairs – Fortinet, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data encrypted — not just the two classical ways, at rest and in transit.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. Can you prove otherwise?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. 12, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Timothy Dalton Vaughn , a 20-year-old from Winston-Salem, N.C.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? Related: Nation-state hacks suggest cyber war is underway. I had an invigorating discussion with Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi , about this at Black Hat USA 2018.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet VPN). The post APT hacked a US municipal government via an unpatched Fortinet VPN appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

According to experts at Sonicwall, scanning of random ports and the diffusion of encrypted malware are characterizing the threat landscape. In 2018, global malware volume recorded by SonicWall hit a record-breaking 10.52 Most of the attacks targeted non-standard ports and experts observed a spike in the number of encrypted malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows. The body of each Sodin sample includes an encrypted configuration block that stores the settings and data used by the malware.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 As KrebsOnSecurity noted in 2019 , Vaughn’s identity was revealed by following the trail of clues from a gaming website he used that later got hacked. Timothy Dalton Vaughn from Winston-Salem, N.C. attorney for the Central District of California. Federal judge Otis D.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. 13, 2018 and Mar. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sometime before March, hackers working for the Russian SVR — previously known as the KGB — hacked into SolarWinds and slipped a backdoor into an Orion software update. (We Other examples of this sort of attack include fake apps in the Google Play store, and hacked replacement screens for your smartphone. Probably.).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Russia-linked APT Turla has hacked into the systems of an undisclosed European government organization according to Accenture. According to a report published by Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI), Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Turla has hacked into the systems of an undisclosed European government organization.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

The phone of the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos was hacked in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. had demanded that De Becker deny finding any evidence of “electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their newsgathering process.”.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” ” In July 2022, Schulte was found guilty in a New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. . District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We hacked Lloyds of London and Silverstein Properties. “What’s the takeaway?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Nation-state backed hacking collectives have been around at least as long as the Internet. However, evidence that the ‘golden age’ of cyber espionage is upon us continues to accumulate as the first half of 2018 comes to a close. Iran hacks Saudi plants. Related podcast : Obsolescence is creeping into legacy security systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

RansomExx operation has been active since 2018, the list of its victims includes government agencies, the computer manufacturer and distributor GIGABYTE , and the Italian luxury brand Zegna. The ransomware iterates through the specified directories, enumerating and encrypting files. SecurityAffairs – hacking, RansomExx ransomware).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

Security researchers have found a high severity flaw (CVE-2018-5383) affecting some Bluetooth implementations that allow attackers to manipulate traffic. Basically, a nearby attacker can launch a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack and obtain the encryption key, then it can monitor and manipulate the traffic exchanged by the devices.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ryuk is a sophisticated ransomware threat that has been targeting businesses, hospitals, government institutions and other organizations since 2018. Read our blue team's guide for ransomware prevention, protection and recovery. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Later it was involved in many malspam attacks, but only in July 2018, the authors released a substantially updated variant. ” One of the variants analyzed by BleepingComputer encrypts data and appends the.promorad extension to encrypted files, then it creates ransom notes named _readme.txt as shown below.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Some of the IoT botnets enslaved hundreds of thousands of hacked devices. In 2015, then 15-year-old Sterritt was involved in the high-profile hack against U.K. Sterritt later pleaded guilty to his part in the intrusion, and at his sentencing in 2018 was ordered to complete 50 hours of community service.

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Kali Linux

JULY 9, 2018

We have covered how to create secure “throw-away hack boxes” using the Raspberry Pi before , but we thought it was time to go back and take a look at the process again. So we use the LUKS full disk encryption along with the LUKS Nuke capability to put this together. To do this, we will create a fake LUKS filesystem.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

A hacker going online by the moniker AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked the most popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. “We hacked Protonmail and have a significant amount of their data from the past few months. ProtonMail denied having been hacked that added that this is just a hoax.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. This ransomware encrypts data from victims with AES-256 + RSA-8192 and then demands a ~ 2 BTC ransom to get the files back. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet VPN).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The data covered a period from 2018 to 2021. Take a look at the original post published by CyberNews: [link] About the author: Vilius Petkauskas , Deputy Editor at CyberNews Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Dubai Taxi Company)

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

As we look at the past year of 2018, it is all too easy to see that data breach or leak of sensitive information is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the top Cloud Data Breaches in 2018 and see how they were carried out, what data was leaked, and the weakness that was exposed by the breach.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ransomware operators leverage a custom antivirus killing p ackage that is delivered to workstations to disable security solution before starting encryption. “The signed driver, part of a now-deprecated software package published by Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte, has a known vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-19320.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2019

million to allow victims to access encrypted data. million to allow victims to access encrypted data. In July 2018, another Palm Beach suburb, Palm Springs, decided to pay a ransom, but it was not able to completely recover all its data. million to allow towns to access encrypted data appeared first on Security Affairs.

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